A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx

by Subrata Mukherjee

This book in its second edition continues to examine in detail the fascinating evolution of the history of political thought - rich and diverse – through the works of thirteen key political thinkers (from Plato to Aristotle to Machiavelli to Hegel to Kant to Marx). It focuses on the recent interpretations of the classical texts, for instance feasibility of the ideal State in Plato; civic humanism and republicanism in Machiavelli; the radicalism of Locke, and the contributions to the woman’s cause by John Stuart Mill. The new edition includes two important liberal thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft, the founder of liberal feminism and the other, Immanuel Kant, a de-ontological liberal; along with an Appendix on John Rawls.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Academic, Political Science

576 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2011

Reviews

[Pradhuman Jhala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the content, it covers a wide range of political philosophers I wanted to learn about. It's a great introductory book on political thoughts, esp given that it is written in chronological order, one can get to see how thoughts evolved over time.
However it is written in text book style and follows a strict format which seemed unnecessary at times.

[Keerti Channaraddi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need this book

[Rahul · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[El H Pea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book and all, but my criticism is that the Conclusion or concluding topic is far too long to be a conclusion as one can deduce another whole (sub-)topic out if it. The authors should've just added another topic about/of Criticism about the Theorists/Philosophers and their Thoughts instead of shoving it all in the Conclusion as it makes the concluding parts uninteresting after awhile.

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